I thank my hon. Friend for that intervention. I have raised the point repeatedly with Ministers; I certainly was not trying to belittle it. The point that I was trying to make was that where we have legal powers already, to what extent are we using them? Are we using them to the full? My hon. Friend is right: the estimate that I saw suggested that there are about 15,000 illegal vehicles currently on the road. That has implications if they are in an accident; are they traceable? There is a lost economy issue. Our garages would be getting business from MOT-ing them. The insurers would be generating revenue from them. I make the point for illustrative purposes: it raises a wider point about unfairness within a community, which is not conducive to cohesion.
Immigration (Bulgaria and Romania)
Proceeding contribution from
Steve Barclay
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 22 April 2013.
It occurred during Backbench debate
and
e-petition debate on Immigration (Bulgaria and Romania).
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